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by kbenson 5y ago
In the US I believe anyone can use the pole space as long as it's not taken, but I'm not an expert. I do know you have to fill out engineering documents per-pole to explain the load and propose (pay for?) fixing the load bearing
902.
by kbenson 5y ago
Well, the use case is multiple people doing things at the same location that add up to more than 1Gbit. For example, think of the connection on a switch with mostly 1Gbit ports but one or two 10Gbit or 25Gbit ports for the uplink. Switche
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by kbenson 5y ago
Just think of it as future proofing, like installing higher rated cabling in a house than you'll use initially. The cost isn't any more for you to have 10Gbit in this case, so for you it's just knowing that you could buy mor
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by kbenson 5y ago
There are other ISPs in the states that are much more competitive (I work at one). Unfortunately, if you're not in a fairly dense area, the chances they can deliver to you is minimal, since building your own network is expensive. For
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by kbenson 5y ago
> Living in a home with Cat5 throughout so the best I can do is to route 1Gbit. Having your uplink faster than all your individual ports in a network helps prevent any one port from being able to saturate your network. I work at an ISP t
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by kbenson 5y ago
> I don't know if you can compare sourceforge with github because the former was also used by many to get ready-to-use binaries where github is more exclusive to developers and peers. Some projects use the gist page for their web pa
907.
by kbenson 5y ago
I'm not sure I've ever heard of a "shape manipulator" before, and I'm at such a loss as to what it could be that Google isn't super useful without additional context to lean on. The only thing I saw that might
908.
by kbenson 5y ago
Ah, like slices of slices of mortgages. :/
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by kbenson 5y ago
I don't think that's an accurate assessment of my position or point. You can see my reply to your sibling comment for further explanation from me. In short I don't think a free market is a panacea or perfect, but I do think
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by kbenson 5y ago
> Tobacco advertising, pollution, lead gasoline... Clearly we do make moral choices and, as a democracy, pass laws restricting some activities. We do, but I think it's rare, and much rarer than that list would imply. I see most of
911.
by kbenson 5y ago
Eh, they're definitely not great , but I think a lot of is is different expectations of the developers and the players. It's in beta, and the dev team treats it like such and treats the players as both beta testers and the QA de
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by kbenson 5y ago
Is it brilliant, or is it standard operating procedure for stuff like this? I would assume most hostile takeovers follow some similar path and also try to manipulate the stock a bit in a way favorable to themselves with their actions prior
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by kbenson 5y ago
Eh, it's just the squeaky wheels, like it is anywhere. I find that people are much more likely to speak out (or up/down vote) in support of something they also do that they feel vaguely guilty for, possibly in an effort to assuag
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by kbenson 5y ago
You likely do have people or organizations on the loan to your house though, and they don't really get a say most of the time as long as they can be paid off. What if instead of a house we were talking about a small business that serve
915.
by kbenson 5y ago
Oh boy, here we go. First, I meant that on multiple levels. Tarkov has some interesting dynamics with competition and dual classes of players, and competing incentives to both team up and betray others based on in-game tasks and rep syste
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by kbenson 5y ago
Wow, that's creative. I want to watch all of these now. Thanks for the link!
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by kbenson 5y ago
Play Tarkov, it will destroy your faith in the concept of faith.
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by kbenson 5y ago
My initial reaction to that is just that he likely was too green and not groomed enough. We expect normal people to not know everything already and be willing to change their stance on something when new information comes to light (even if
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by kbenson 5y ago
My whole point rests on the assertion that things are not static. Explicitly stated as companies changing from benevolent to less so, or politicians going from working for the people to against them. Implicitly, I expected this to be appl
920.
by kbenson 5y ago
> I'm not sure what that adds to your post besides to antagonize. I'd respectfully suggest rethinking that as an opener on future comments. Then you interpreted my statement as more harsh than I intended, and I'll own up t
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by kbenson 5y ago
I read the comment you're replying to as saying it didn't actually destroy anything, it's just easy to infer that from what's visible in records (e.g. statistics). "Didn't actually destroy anything in practi
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by kbenson 5y ago
> No, you don't get to change what I said to fit your worldview. The 70's and the 80's had tons of multinational companies that didn't treat their employees like cattle, and that treated each of their branches as its
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by kbenson 5y ago
> The obvious difference is that the employees are free to change jobs at any time. Yes, they may need to move if there are literally no other jobs in town, but that's not an option serfs had in a fiefdom. You misunderstand my point
924.
by kbenson 5y ago
> The point of OP is about a time where local communities mattered more than global output. Correction, a time when companies didn't have an easy and clear path to global output. > When those in power were close enough to the c
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by kbenson 5y ago
Well, I'm for utopias, which is better, so does that mean my argument is superior? I'm also for letting people eat as much as they want and not exercise and be in perfect health. Perhaps having a feasible path to the desired outc
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by kbenson 5y ago
My point isn't that politicians are inherently better or more trustworthy than companies, but that you have more control over them. The amount of control as a community you can exert on a company beg enough to have a large influence i
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by kbenson 5y ago
Who said there's a right answer forever? The whole point of what I said is to make sure you use your own power as a citizen to pass laws and elect those people you think will serve your interests best at the current time, and as soo
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by kbenson 5y ago
> There are libertarians (even then popular ones like Milton Friedman), that have explicitly argued for open borders and free trade on the basis of the welfare of non citizens. And there are liberal policy makers that look to increase pr
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by kbenson 5y ago
The honor system works when there are social checks and balances that can be applied to punish socially for going against what's acceptable. The whole point is that larger entities are shielded from some of these repercussions because
930.
by kbenson 5y ago
Is the implication that conservatives supported NAFTA because it would reduce poverty around the world? It's probably better to assess peoples motivations as they were at the time, not by what happened. A liberal would say they were

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